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by Chris Dhambarage

Sri Lanka has been selected as the venue to host the final round of matches in the first ever Asia Cup indoor cricket tournament next year.

This was following the recent visit of General Secretary of the Indian Indoor Cricket Federation Mohinder Singh Khasa who made a three day visit to Sri Lanka to sign three agreements with the Ceylon Indoor Cricket Association officials.

His visit to Sri Lanka led to the forming of a new federation for Indoor Cricket in Asia with the alliance of Sri Lanka and India namely Asian Indoor Cricket Federation.

The Asian Indoor Cricket Federation will be based in Sri Lanka and the founder member countries are India and Sri Lanka. In time to come more indoor cricket playing countries in Asia will join to the Asian body of indoor cricket.

With the forming of this federation the possibility of conducting the first ever indoor cricket Asia Cup was utilized. The forming of the new Asian Indoor Cricket Federation will turn a new era of indoor cricket in the Asian region.

Meanwhile a memorandum of understanding was signed between the India Indoor Cricket Federation and the Ceylon Indoor Cricket Association for the TV rights for the International Indoor cricket matches to be played in India and Sri Lanka.

Austasia Sports Limited the supporting company for indoor cricket in Sri Lanka will have the sole marketing and selling rights of telecasting all the international matches played in India and Sri Lanka. Apart from the agreements signed between the two Governing Bodies India will send their national teams and regional Squads to Sri Lanka for special training on indoor cricket. At present a women's squad from India is in Sri Lanka at the Ceylon Indoor Cricket Association Training School.

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